Photo and Commentary ©2023 by Maylan Schurch
Sabbath, July 1, 2023
Unless you attend our church, you may not know that Robert Howson—our resident birder and provider of Tuesday’s Daily Photo Parable photos and commentary—also plays a huge string bass once in awhile during our worship services.
Since that behemoth of his isn’t electrified, the audio-visual team has placed a microphone on a stand in front of the bass, so that people on our livestreamed broadcasts can hear it.
When Robert hasn’t brought his bass, the AV people will park that mike out of the way. Not long ago I was in our sanctuary and saw it pointing to the wall. Immediately the phrase came to mind: If these walls could talk!
You’ve heard that saying, right? The idea behind it is to try to imagine what the walls of a home or an office or other building have “heard,” and what would happen if they could repeat it.
Jesus once uttered a chilling prophecy about the importance of the words we use to each other:
But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned. (Matthew 12:36, 37 NKJV)
Immediately we think of social media, and the bitter, biting words which some people use from an anonymously safe distance, and the grotesque damage these words sometimes cause. As Jesus suggests, it’s important to monitor carefully what we say.
Here’s some more of what the Bible says about words:
https://www.bibleinfo.com/en/topics/words